What is SAX exactly??

[pondi]

Hi,

I'm actually looking for a Java API able to create XML documents from data "on the fly".
During my search, I often get SAX.
Some say that you can create XML documents with it but when I look at the doc of APIs I just have notes about parsing an existing XML document like:
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startDocument() endDocument()
These methods are called when you're at the top or the end of the document. Thye initialize the parsing.
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Thanx for your help.

 

[Nosferatu]

Simple Api for XML.
Sax is basically, as far as I know (I worked most with Xerces), related to XML's DOM (search it on

http://www.w3.org,

it reached the level 3 specification).

Therefore, you have in DOM all the necessary functions for creating documents and all kinds of elements, setting and retrieving their values anso...

If you want to create a document, you have to use the createDocument function inside the DOM_Document interface, which will set the parent of the newly created document to the DOM_Document instance where you've called the method from.
That is because the DOM Nodes have no meaning outside a document.

And that's the reason that you cannot create a document just like that...
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[mmaz]

There are 2 major types of API for XML: DOM and SAX. DOM is tree-based and SAX is event-based. They each have their advantages/disadvantages. Generally, SAX is better if your documents are very large.

If you want to know more, check out the official web site for SAX:

http://www.saxproject.org/

The java doc is available at:

http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/overview-summary.html